Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Smartest Kid Alive is Egyptian!!

It was such a shock for me to know that an 11 year young boy has an IQ of 155, let alone being from the Middle East. This 11 year young boy is the smartest kid alive, according to the AlJareeda newspaper. His name is Mahmud Wael and he is from Egypt. His intelligence was first discovered by his father, when he was at the age of 3. It all began when once Mahmud’s older sister was studying the times table with her father while he was seated next to them minding his own business. And at the moment when his father asked his sister a multiplication question, he instantaneously shouted out the answer, before she even uttered a word. The words he uttered literally staggered his father, I mean who wouldn’t be surprised to hear his own 3 year old child solve a multiplication question and it’s not even addition! As soon as his intelligence was discovered by his parents their attention was all pointed towards him. At the age of 5, he was invited by a well-known Egyptian anchor’s, Mufeed Fawzi, show called “Hadeeth Al Madina” and this was his first appearance on national TV. Upon his first appearance on TV, his fame gushed all over the Arab world. I was researching the name of this kid on the internet and I found several articles and posts about him, all of which are Arab based blogs or websites. It gave me doubt on whether this kid is “the smartest kid alive” because I found no single non-Arab source that validates this information. It is either that the media in the outside world doesn’t want to admit that the smartest kid alive is an Arab or that the media in the Arab world over-exaggerate the matter of this kid’s intelligence. It is evident that there's certainly clashed information on who could be the youngest genius alive.

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